MiniMax M2-her vs MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 has a larger context window than MiniMax M2-her (1.0M tokens vs 66K tokens).
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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
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Written rounds
24 promptsYou are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
MiniMax M2-her: adjusts tie Hour 1-2: Meet legal and ethics. Hour 3-4: Review data. Hour 5-6: Notify regulators. Hour 7-8: Draft patient letter. Hour 9-10: Prepare PR team. Hour 11-12: Inform board early. Hour 13-14: Train patient hotline. Hour 15-16: Call key investors. Hour 17-18: Draft earnings script.
MiniMax M3: CEO Action Plan: 48-Hour Response to Discovered Safety Signal Operating Principles (Before I Make a Move) Before I do anything, I need to be crystal clear about the framework I'm operating in, because under pressure, even good leaders rationalize delay: The 4 million patients are not abstractions.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
MiniMax M2-her: Alright, I can certainly help craft an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. Let me take you through the process step by step, just like a chef would. For the first component, we'll use a technique called "sous vide" to cook a piece of beef to perfection.
MiniMax M3: TIDES OF THE FOREST Mareas del Bosque — A dish for the table of four THE NARRATIVE Where the salt forest breathes. This dish was conceived as a poem about collision — a memory of two landscapes that should not exist in the same breath: the pine-dark density of a Boreal forest floor at dawn, and the crystalline hush of…
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
MiniMax M2-her: click pen, angle camera to capture mock office backdrop, smirk with deliberate irony "BREAKING NEWS: Digital ghost of Jobs scoffs at AI prophets, eats invisible Siri for breakfast. Switched his ghost to Android just to trigger Tim Cook in the afterlife. REAL headline. Now send $19.99 to revive his hologram."
MiniMax M3: Simulated Interview: "Steve Jobs" on the Future of AI (2025) A note before we begin: Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, so this is a fictional dramatization—what I imagine his views might be, based on his documented philosophy, writings, and public statements, projected into a 2025 conversation.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
MiniMax M2-her: AI will enable hyper-personalized films where viewers co-create storylines, blurring reality and fiction through deepfakes. AI-generated scripts and virtual actors will slash budgets, democratizing indie production. Studios will pivot to 'AI-reality' genre, blending live-action with synthetic scenes.
MiniMax M3: AI and the Future of Cinema: A 2035 Outlook By 2035, AI will likely have reshaped nearly every stage of filmmaking—but probably not in the way either techno-optimists or doomsayers expect. The transformation will be uneven, with some functions transformed entirely while others remain stubbornly human.
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
MiniMax M2-her: Why did the coffee file a police report? It got mugged! ☕🚓 Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. ✨ I told my computer I needed a break, and now it’s frozen. 💻🥶 Why don’t skeletons fight? They don’t have the guts. 💀💥 Did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut?
MiniMax M3: 5 Jokes 1. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. 🐛 2. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. 😲 3. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. ⚛️ 4. I used to hate facial hair, but then it grew on me. 🧔 5.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
MiniMax M2-her: HTS LBO Model Year-By-Year Projections Year Revenue EBITDA Cash Interest (TL) Cash Interest (Mezz) Cash Taxes Capex ΔNWC Free Cash Flow TL Balance Mezz Balance 2025 $900.00m $120.00m $43.20m $21.60m $0.00m $27.00m $0.00m -$28.80m $480.00m $198.00m 2026 $972.00m $136.08m $43.20m $21.60m $12.78m $29.16m $3.60m $25.74m…
MiniMax M3: HarborTech Services (HTS) – 5-Year LBO Analysis Sources & Uses at Close (FY2025) Sources $m Uses $m Term Loan (4.0x) 480.0 Purchase price (12.0x × $120) 1,440.0 Mezzanine (1.5x) 180.0 Transaction fees (2.0% × EV) 28.8 Sponsor Equity (plug) 808.8 Total 1,468.8 Total 1,468.8 Initial Mezz: $180m; Initial TL: $480m.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
MiniMax M2-her: Alright, let's tackle this question. The user is asking to estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3 without searching online. First, I need to recall what FLOPs stands for. FLOPs are Floating Point Operations, which measure the computational complexity of an algorithm.
MiniMax M3: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Identify the Key Parameters From what's publicly known about GPT-3 (175B parameter version): Number of non-embedding parameters: N ≈ 175 × 10⁹ Training tokens: D ≈ 300 × 10⁹ (the paper used a ~570GB filtered corpus processed into ~300B tokens) Step 2: Derive the FLOPs-per-Token…
A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.
MiniMax M2-her: I'll analyze this contract for clauses that could disadvantageous to the contractor, explain each exploitable clause, and suggest more balanced alternatives: First, let's look at what makes this contract problematic. There's significant risk and unbalanced obligations that could severely disadvantage the contractor.
MiniMax M3: Contract Analysis: Exploitative Clauses and Recommended Modifications Below is a clause-by-clause review identifying provisions that heavily favor the Client, suggested redlines, and the legal/business reasoning behind each recommendation. Note: This is general informational analysis, not legal advice.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
MiniMax M2-her: Pirate: Arr, me hearties! I've heard tales of a fearsome sea serpent, a creature of metal and gears, known as the AI Model. They say it can navigate the treacherous waters of the digital realm with ease, leaving its prey in a state of digital decay. What say ye, me mateys?
MiniMax M3: AI Council of the Ages Pirate: Arrr, so ye be tellin' me this "artificial intelligence" be a wee mechanical parrot that learns to talk like a sea dog? Squawks out answers without ever settin' foot on the seven seas? Hacker: Not quite, matey.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
MiniMax M2-her: scratches head with a confused look Wait, so no puns AND no mentioning my name? leans in conspiratorially How about... a joke about mishearing song lyrics? grins sheepishly Like: "Oops, I thought it was 'Sussudio' this whole time."
MiniMax M3: "The Future Is Now and I Want a Refund" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I was at the grocery store yesterday. Self-checkout. I love self-checkout. You know why I love self-checkout? Because nothing builds character like being publicly shamed by a machine. [Pause] I scanned a banana. Just a banana.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
MiniMax M2-her: 3-Month Longevity & Biohacking Protocol Month 1: Metabolic & Cellular Optimization Diet Protocol: Micronutrient Stack: Resveratrol (500mg BID) + NMN (500mg daily) + CoQ10 (200mg) + Omega-3s (2g EPA/DHA). Fasting Regimen: 16:8 IF daily + quarterly 72-hour fasts.
MiniMax M3: The Biohacker's 3-Month Longevity Protocol A Comprehensive Optimization Framework for Healthspan & Performance ⚠️ Critical Disclaimer: This protocol is educational and exploratory. Many interventions (pharmaceutical-grade supplements, fasting protocols, intense exercise) require medical clearance.
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
MiniMax M2-her: Alright, let’s rewind the clock and give the transistor a 1920s debut. This is going to reshape the world in some pretty wild ways. Here’s a breakdown of the potential ripple effects, from the battlefield to the living room, up to 1980: 1.
MiniMax M3: The 1920 Transistor: A Speculative History Through 1980 A Necessary Caveat Before diving in: quantum mechanics didn't exist in 1920. The "holes," band theory, and doping concepts that made the actual transistor possible weren't formulated until 1928-1931 (Bloch, Wilson, Heisenberg).
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Price and specs
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, MiniMax M3 has the edge: newer, bigger context window.
| Spec | MiniMax M2-her | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.3/M tokens | $0.3/M tokens |
| Output price | $1.2/M tokens | $1.2/M tokens |
| Context window | 66K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | — | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Jan 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $3.00 | $3.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Where to run it
MiniMax M2-her1 host
MiniMax M313 hosts
- CoreWeavefp4$0.23 in$0.96 out262k99.3% up
- GMI Cloudfp8$0.24 in$0.96 out1M99.6% up
- DeepInfrafp8$0.28 in$1.10 out524k99.7% up
- AtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in$1.20 out524k98.7% up
- MiniMaxfp8$0.30 in$1.20 out524k99.8% up
- Novitafp8$0.30 in$1.20 out1M99.5% up
7 more hostsFewer hosts
- Parasailfp8$0.30 in$1.20 out1M99.8% up
- StreamLakefp8$0.30 in$1.20 out1M98.5% up
- Together$0.30 in$1.20 out524k99.5% up
- Venicefp8$0.30 in$1.20 out524k96.3% up
- Mara$0.60 in$2.40 out1M95.1% up
- ModelRunfp4$0.75 in$3.00 out1M99.7% up
- SambaNovaDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 7 Oct 2026$0.60 in$2.40 out1M74.4% up
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 7 Oct 2026.
Common questions
What is the difference between MiniMax M2-her and MiniMax M3?
Both are developed by MiniMax but target different use cases. MiniMax M2-her has a 66K token context window vs MiniMax M3's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
Which is better, MiniMax M2-her or MiniMax M3?
It depends on your use case. MiniMax M2-her and MiniMax M3 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
How much does MiniMax M2-her cost compared to MiniMax M3?
MiniMax M2-her costs $0.3/M input tokens and MiniMax M3 costs $0.3/M input tokens. MiniMax M3 is $0.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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